Subtext

Subtext 2.5 (well 2.5.something now that they’ve had to patch a couple of things) looks like a nice upgrade indeed. The improved searching and ‘related content’ features should be interesting to anyone who pays even a small amount of attention to their blog stats. It’ll be upgrade time around here as soon as I get a few moments. Tags: Subtext

The observant among you will notice that the site has changed. I'm no longer running on Domino, and hence I'm no longer running on Blogo. The site is now fully powered by ASP.NET, and is running the excellent Open Source Subtext. Thanks go out to Ferdy for all the time he's spent writing and maintaining Blogo - if you're in the market for an open source Domino blogging engine then check it out, it's well worth it.
Why Subtext? I can't really say. I played with a few .NET solutions out there, and decided that I really liked quite a few...

About me

My name is Ross Hawkins and I'm a developer, consultant, business owner and writer based in Auckland,
New Zealand. My current work revolves around ASP.NET, C#, Azure, jQuery, Ajax,
SQL Server, and a mix of other Microsoft development technologies. I also have about 15 years of experience with IBM Lotus Notes/Domino and associated technologies.

One of the breaking changes which was made with
the 1.0 release of the Microsoft Ajax Extensions was the renaming
of the 'Debug' class to 'Sys.Debug' for reasons of compatiability
with other frameworks. Breaking changes like this can often be a source of frustration..

A textbox character counter is a pretty simple piece of functionality, and there's a lot of different ways to apply one to your application. The following method is nice and simple, and can be done using only clientside JavaScript if required, or combined with server side code in order to create a more dynamic effect